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I am sorry Wesley had a seizure. What you describe certainly sounds like that is what happened.

Many things can cause seizures. If he has never had a seizure before, this is probably not epilepsy; epileptics usually have a seizure when they are younger.

Seizures can be from high or low blood sugar, a blood clot, liver disease, low thyroid, heart disease (temporary interruption of blood to the brain, called syncope), or neurologic disease (brain tumor, encephalitis, meningitis). Sometimes a dog has a seizure, and then never has another.

The place to start to figure out why this happened is a good physical exam by a veterinarian and some blood tests to check thyroid, liver, blood counts, etc.

We would not start anti seizure medication unless he is having seizures regularly, more often than one a month.

Give me a moment to look up these medications. Did he get one of them?

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Customer reply replied 2 years ago

I really don't think he ate a medication, but I was just checking that to see what the dangers would be.

Hi,I'm just following up on our conversation about your pet. How is everything going?Rebecca

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Customer reply replied 2 years ago

Everything is normal. Wesley had a normal xray and all blood and urine tests were normal. So... might be something he ate and passed through or it might have been a transient siezure. We'll wait and see. We are documenting any/all abnormalities now.

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